An Allentown gas station clerk was repeatedly stabbed Tuesday
morning by a robber who was arrested after police followed shoe prints and blood drops
in the snow, police said.

Police were called to the Gulf and Minit Mart, 1441 W. Gordon
St., about 9:30 a.m. for a report of a robbery in progress.

Officers found a store clerk with multiple stab wounds and he
was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township, where he was treated for
four puncture wounds to his torso and one to his arm, according to court records.

The robber, later identified as Zumar Ali, was wearing a blue
mask and red hooded sweatshirt, and ordered the clerk to the floor before taking
lottery tickets, money and cigarettes, according to court records.

Police said Ali's knife broke in the attack.

Police followed shoe prints and blood drops in the snow to the
back of a building in the 300 block of North 14th Street. Officers stopped Ali leaving
the building with lottery tickets, records say.

Inside the building police found a red hooded sweatshirt, several
torn lottery tickets, dark pants and shoes with probable blood stains on them,
a broken knife handle and cigarettes, records say.

Ali is charged with robbery and aggravated assault. He was arraigned
by District Judge Ron Manescu, who denied Ali bail.